Linda E. Johnson

Background

Linda E. Johnson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center (NCC) since January 2009 and also serves as its Trustee. Before taking the helm of the NCC, Ms. Johnson served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation from 2006 to 2009. During her term, Ms. Johnson raised more than $40 million for the Parkway Central Library’s Capital Campaign to finance a major renovation and expansion – designed ... by acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie. She also oversaw the Library’s annual-giving campaign, including the George Pepper Society, and was responsible for signature Library programs including the popular Author Series, One Book, One Philadelphia, which provides 8,000 books and fosters public dialogue about literature throughout the region each year, the Free Library Festival and the Summer Reading program which provides services to more than 60,000 school children annually. She began her professional career practicing environmental and education law with the firm of Greenberg & Prior in Princeton, NJ, which later merged with the Newark, NJ, firm Sills Cummis. In 1990, she joined JCI Data Processing, Inc., an information technology company founded in 1958 by her father, Victor Johnson. She was named President of JCI in 1994. During her tenure the company, a leading provider of information services to magazine publishers and marketers, doubled in size. Ms. Johnson remains a shareholder in the payroll business, now known as American Payroll Company. She serves as a Trustee at Hamilton College. Ms. Johnson earned her undergraduate degree from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Her post graduate achievements include an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in law.

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